Calibre

Definitions: Calibre

Calibre

Noun

1. A degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber".

2. Diameter of a tube or gun barrel.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "calibre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Calibre

Crosswords: Calibre

French (bore, caliber, calibrates, calibre, feeler, Gage, gauge, grade, standard), Portuguese (bore, caliber, calibre, Gage, gauge, range), Spanish (bore, caliber, calibers, calibre, Gage, gauge, profile, size).

Calibre 38 (1967)

Big Calibre (1935)

Forty-Five Calibre Echo (1932)

Calibre 45 (1924)

El Calibre de la venganza (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Airway Calibre in Health and Disease: The Pathophysiology of Upper and Lower Airway Narrowing (reference)

• Paris Kanonen-The Paris Guns (Wilhelmgeschutze and Project Harp: The Application of Major Calibre Guns to Atmospheric and Space Research) (reference)

• Tir au revolver et au pistolet en 10 le�ons : [achat, calibre, clubs, faire ses munitions] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• De Gruesco Calibre (reference)

• El Calibre De La Venganza (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The armament of these defences shall not exceed, as regards the number and calibre of guns, those in position at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "calibre": .22 calibre ♦ .38 calibre ♦ .45 calibre. Additional references.

Ending with "calibre": high-calibre, large-calibre, medium-calibre, small-calibre.

Albanian

cilësi (caliber, capacity, class, degree, fabric, merit, qualification, quality, sort, texture), vlerë (amount, asset, avail, caliber, denomination, feck, merit, price, purchase, quality, rate, valor, valour, value, worth), shkallë (accommodation ladder, caliber, degree, flight, gauge, gradations, grade, ladder, level, measure, notch, peg, phase, pitch, point, rate, rating, remove, scale, stadium, stair, staircase, stairway), peshë (caliber, Dolly, heft, load, meterage, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, strain, weight, weightiness), kalibër (bore, caliber, gauge, grade, groove, size), diametër i brendshëm (caliber). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عيار قطر جسم مستدير (caliber), ‏عيار (bore, caliber, gauge, standard), ‏صاحب مكانة (caliber), ‏الكاليبية مادة هلامية (caliber), ‏القطر الداخلي (caliber). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разряд, калибър (bore, caliber, gauge, size), мащаб (gauge, measure, scale). (various references)

Chinese 

口径 (Caliber). (various references)

Czech

ráže (caliber), kalibr (bore, Gage, gauge, stamp), formát (format, size, stature). (various references)

Dutch

mal (absurd, former, gauge, model, pattern, ridiculous, template, templet), kaliber (calipers, gage, gauge, roller gauge, template, templet, threadgage), boring (bore, bore hole, boring, conduit, drill hole, hole, well). (various references)

Esperanto

kalibro. (various references)

Finnish

väljyys (looseness), kaliberi. (various references)

French

calibre (caliber, calibrates, caliper). (various references)

German

kaliber (caliber, calibrator, caliper, Gage, gauge). (various references)

Greek 

διαμέτρημα (bore, caliber, gage, gauge, size). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"י�" (gauge, measurable, meter, metre), שעור קומ�" (caliber, importance, stature), קליבר (caliber), קוטר (caliber, diameter). (various references)

Hungarian

kaliber (bore, caliber, gage, gauge, pass, tapered), súly (bob, burden, caliber, gravity, heft, load, onus, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, purport, weight), rátermettség (aptitude, caliber, dower, efficiency, faculty, gift, suitability), képesség (ability, absorptivity, accomplishment, attainments, caliber, capability, capacity, dower, facility, faculty, genious, gift, reach, talent), furat (bore, borehole, caliber, mortice, mortise), formátum (caliber, format, size, stature), belső átmérő (bore, caliber, inside diameter), űrméret (caliber). (various references)

Indonesian

ukuran senjata api, ukuran bedil, ukuran (dimension, gauge, measure, norm, size), kaliber. (various references)

Italian

calibro (bore, caliber, calipers, Gage, gauge, roller gauge, size, template). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

口径 (aperture, bore). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うけい (aperture, background, bore, ecliptic longitude, filial piety, scene, setting, spectacle, successor, the essential point). (various references)

Korean 

구경 (Caliber). (various references)

Manx

towse (capacity, divine law, dose, gauge, mark off, size, size up, sum up, summing up, time, tit, tit of gold, value, weigh, weigh out; rating). (various references)

Papiamen

kaliber. (various references)

Pig Latin

alibrecay.(various references)

Portuguese

calibre (bore, caliber, calipers, cylinder bore, Gage, gauge, range, roller gauge, size, template, templet). (various references)

Romanian

calibru (bore, caliber, compass, diameter, gauge, jig, pass, pattern, size, sort), valoare (acception, account, amount, assessment, caliber, consequence, cost, denomination, importance, interest, merit, price, purchase, quality, relief, time value, use, value, virtue, weight, worth). (various references)

Russian 

калибр (caliber, calliper, ga, gauge, groove, pass, pattern). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kalibar (caliber, gauge, line gauge). (various references)

Spanish

calibre (aesthesiometer, bore, caliber, calibers, calliper, compass, compasses, gage, gauge, pair of compasses, profile, saw blade thickness, size, template, templet). (various references)

Swedish

kaliber (bore, caliber, gauge). (various references)

Turkish

yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, facility, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), kalibre (bore, caliber, Gage, gauge, jig), çap (bore, caliber, diameter). (various references)

Ukranian 

якість (affections, caliber, grade, property, quality, tenor, texture, virtue), розмір (admeasurement, bigness, caliber, format, metre, proportions, rate, scale, size, verse), розмах (area, caliber, dimension, reach, spread, swing), калібр (caliber, calipers, callipers, gauge, size, template), внутрішній діаметр (bore diameter, caliber), масштаб (area, caliber, gauge, measure, scale, scope, zodiac), достоїнство (caliber, desert, merit, meritoriousness, plus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cỡ (gauge), thứ (affair, order, secondary, sort, stuff, thing, thingamy, thingumajig, thingumbob, thingummy), tính chất (cast, make-up), năng lực (ability, bump, competence, depth, quality), hạng (category, denomination, grade, kind, run, species, standard). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "calibre": calibred, calibres. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caliber.

-1 letter: bailer, caribe, eclair, lacier, librae.

-2 letters: abler, acerb, areic, ariel, baler, baric, birle, blare, blear, brace, brail, caber, cable, carle, ceiba, ceria, clear, erica, ileac, lacer, liber, libra, rabic, relic.

-3 letters: able, abri, acre, alec, aril, bail, bale, bare, bear, bice, bier, bile, birl, blae, brae, brie, carb, care, carl, ceil, cire, crab, crib, earl, ilea, lace, laic, lair, lari, lear, liar, lice, lier, lira, lire, race, rail, rale, real, rial, rice, riel, rile.

-4 letters: ace, ail, air, alb, ale, arb, arc, are, bal, bar, bel, bra, cab, car, cel, ear, era, ice, ire, lab, lac, lar, lea, lei, lib, lie, reb, rec, rei, ria, rib.

-5 letters: ab, ae, ai, al, ar, ba, be, bi, el, er, la, li, re.

+1 letter: albicore, barbicel, braciole, breccial, cabriole, calibers, calibred, calibres.

+2 letters: albicores, algebraic, bacterial, barbicels, bicameral, bracioles, bricolage, cabrioles, cabriolet, calibrate, incurable, irascible, lubricate.

+3 letters: abacterial, acquirable, amerciable, ascribable, backslider, becrawling, birthplace, branchline, bricklayer, bricolages, brilliance, cabriolets, calibrated, calibrates, charitable, clabbering, clambering, clofibrate, corbiculae, cranesbill, creditable, creditably, eradicable, extricable, herbicidal, incurables, linebacker, lubricated, lubricates, orbiculate, predicable, receivable, replicable, republican, scrabblier, silverback.

+4 letters: acerbically, aerobically, appreciable, appreciably, articulable, backsliders, bacterially, ballcarrier, beclamoring, berascaling, bimolecular, biometrical, birthplaces, blackbirded, blackbirder, blacklister, blackmailer, bleacherite, branchlines, bricklayers, brilliances, celebrating, celebration, certifiable, certifiably, chamberlain, charbroiled, charbroiler, cherishable, clofibrates, confirmable, cranesbills, depreciable, describable, discardable, discernable, embracingly, exercisable, hibernacula, increasable, inscrutable, intractable, irradicable, irrecusable, irrecusably, irrevocable, irrevocably, linebackers, lubricative, meroblastic, obstetrical, perceivable, perceivably, practicable, prebiblical, predicables, predictable, predictably, problematic, rebalancing, recalibrate, receivables, reclaimable, rectifiable, relubricate, republicans, scrabbliest, serviceable, serviceably, silverbacks, subliteracy, trafficable, verbalistic.

+5 letters: accreditable, bactericidal, bacteriology, ballcarriers, bicameralism, biomolecular, blackberries, blackbirders, blacklisters, blackmailers, bleacherites, borosilicate, brilliancies, celebrations, chamberlains, charbroilers, cherubically, childbearing, circulatable, considerable, considerably, contractible, coralberries, criticizable, curabilities, curveballing, cybernetical, decipherable, descrambling, discoverable, distractable, distractible, elucubrating, elucubration, herbicidally, hibernaculum, hyperbolical, incomparable, incorporable, ineradicable, ineradicably, inextricable, inextricably, liberalistic, microbalance, microwavable, nonbacterial, plebiscitary, precipitable, problematics, recalibrated, recalibrates, recognizable, recognizably, reconcilable, relubricated, relubricates, ribonuclease, rockabillies, secobarbital, tabernacling, traceability, uncalibrated, uncharitable, vocabularies.

43 61 6C 69 62 72 65

⁼

-.-.    .-    .-..    ..    -...    .-.    .

01000011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100010 01110010 01100101

&#67 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#98 &#114 &#101

0043 0061 006C 0069 0062 0072 0065

37677875688471